This chapter offers illustrative studies that have addressed some of the ways in which
powerful actors who are threatened by research engage in efforts to construct public …

In recent decades, corporate and special interests have developed a wide repertoire of
methods to manufacture doubt about science that threatens their interests. In the case …

In Ignorance and Uncertainty: Emerging Paradigms, Australian sociologist Michael Smithson
observes that Western intellectuals, who once preoccupied themselves with knowledge, are …

In the years since a symposium on science and ignorance at the 1993 annual meeting of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a small but growing number …

The idea that ignorance is the outcome of a deficit of correct information is persistent,
especially for academics working in an environment where learning and the acquisition of …

This commentary argues that we need to take ignorance and non-knowledge seriously in
the fields of science communication and public understanding of science. As much as we …

Although sociologists have explored how political and economic factors influence the
formation of ignorance in science and technology, we know little about how scientists …

As modern societies have become increasingly technological, science has become both
more important and more politicized. Funding shifts into new research fields and out of old …

The starting-point of this chapter is the observation that people do not simply possess
knowledge about scientific'facts' and scientific procedures and processes, they can also …

Amidst reports of science news omitting key information regarding financial ties in scientific
research, the present study surveyed the practices of health and science journalists in the …